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Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device Using the Dell DR Series System CLI Dell Engineering August 2014 A Dell Technical White Paper - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 2
. Trademarks used in this text: Dell™, the Dell logo, Dell Boomi™, Dell Precision™ ,OptiPlex™, Latitude™, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, Compellent™, KACE™, FlexAddress™, Force10™ and Vostro™ are trademarks of Dell Inc. Other Dell trademarks may be used in this - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 3
CLI flow ...14 4 Synchronizing the source and target containers ...15 4.1 If a target container exists ...15 4.2 If the target container does not exist ...15 3 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 4
Executive summary This paper provides information about how to set up seeding from a Dell DR Series system to an external device through the Dell DR Series command line interface (CLI). This paper is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR Series system deployment best practices. For - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 5
. Perform seed export Transfer the devices to target location Perform seed import Yes Perform seed cleanup Is INSYNC? No Enable the replication relationship 5 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 6
[--enc_type ] By default the data is encrypted; however, the encryption type is optional. This command would request a password that is needed for encryption as shown add_container --name 6 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 7
server. The name is case-sensitive. • user name - credentials to access the share. Password is requested separately. 4. Once the add device is successful, you can cross check the configuration input is complete. seed -stats 7 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 8
which the seed data has been written. It is recommended that you execute the command, seed -stop before removing the device. seed -remove_device 8 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 9
with the seed data. It is optional to delete the data on the device to free up the space for accommodating seed data. 9 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 10
--add_device < ... > seed --show Ready to seed? seed --remove_device seed --stop FINISHED/No Space/Error Pending Check seed status seed --start seed --stats 10 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 11
--op import This command requests a password, which is the same password defined at the time of data export. The password is used to verify and decrypt • user name - the credentials needed to access the share. The password is requested separately. 3. Once the device is added successfully, you can - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 12
, or the device needs to be removed, you can enter the following command to stop all I/O from the seeding device. seed -stop 12 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 13
that particular device will be received at the time of replication resync and will not have any effect on the import process. 13 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 14
another device? seed --show Ready to seed? seed --remove_device Pending seed --stop FINISHED Check seed status seed --delete seed --start seed --stats 14 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014 - Dell DR4100 | Seeding from a DR Series System to an External Device using CLI - Page 15
and target have the same data. 4. Enter the following command on the target to remove unwanted data created by seeding: seed -cleanup 15 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014
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A Dell Technical White Paper
Seeding from a Dell
™
DR Series System to an
External Device
Using the Dell DR Series System CLI
Dell Engineering
August 2014